| Security on property of unpaid duty, etc. 14 of 1982 s. 8. |
225B. (1) Where a person, being the owner of land or buildings situated in Kenya, fails to pay any duty or other sum of money due and payable under this Act, the Commissioner may by notice in writing inform that person of his intention to apply to the Registrar of Lands for the land or buildings to be the subject of security for the duty or other sum of an amount specified in the notice.
(2) If a person on whom a notice has been served under this section fails to pay the whole of the amount specified in the notice within thirty days of the date of service thereof, the Commissioner may by notice in writing direct the Registrar of Lands that the land or buildings, to the extent of the interest of that person therein, be the subject of security for duty or other sum of a specified amount, and the Registrar shall, without fee, register the direction as if it were a mortgage over or charge on the land or buildings and thereupon the registration shall, subject to any prior mortgage or charge operate while it subsists in all respects as a legal mortgage or charge to secure the amount payable.
(3) The Commissioner shall, upon the payment of the whole of the amount secured under subsection (2), by notice in writing to the Registrar of Lands cancel the direction made under that subsection and the Registrar shall, without fee, record the cancellation. |
